Wrexham surged into the Championship play-off places with a remarkable 3-2 victory over Queens Park Rangers, snatched in the dying seconds of stoppage time at Loftus Road. Trailing 2-1 as the clock ticked past 90 minutes, Phil Parkinson's side struck twice through Josh Windass and Ollie Rathbone to turn a likely defeat into a statement away win.
QPR, who had dominated the vast majority of the afternoon and led twice thanks to early scorer Harvey Vale and an 80th-minute header from Steve Cook, appeared to have the points in hand. But after Callum Doyle drew Wrexham level on 54 minutes with his first goal for the club, the visitors refused to fold. Windass levelled in the 93rd minute, Rathbone completed the turnaround two minutes later, and a late red card for Amadou Mbengue compounded a brutal finish for Julien Stephan's side, who slipped to 12th as Wrexham climbed to sixth.
QPR's Early Control and Vale's Sixth-Minute Breakthrough
The afternoon began exactly as QPR would have hoped. On the front foot from the opening whistle, the hosts seized the initiative after just six minutes when Harvey Vale found the net. It was the ideal early breakthrough, rewarding an assertive start and immediately putting Wrexham under pressure in front of an expectant home crowd.